About the College

The main building of this college, which was part of the British legacy in India, is a monument of great aesthetic, architectural and historical importance. Commissioned in 1803 for the British resident, J. A. Kirkpatrick, its builder Lt. Samuel Russell of the Madras Engineers, has produced a structure capable of rivaling the Governor’s house in Kolcata. It is massive in size and has an opulent façade of massive Corinthian pillars forty feet in height. Two lions guard it across a sixty-foot space of twenty-one marble stairs. As a former British Residency, it weaves its own mystique with galleried halls and drawing rooms, a Durbar Hall of stupendous proportions, painted ceiling, parquet floors of inlayed wood, flanked by tall mirrors. Its landscape is dotted by three arched gateways, named after Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Lansdowne, the Viceroy and queen Victoria herself. Its well-fortified outer walls serve as a safe heaven for the young girls studying within. This building is now listed for funding by the World Monument Fund for restoration and modernization.

The Osmania University College for Women is a prominent educational institution in Hyderabad and started with only seven students admitted into the Intermediate Arts Course in 1924 in the premises of what was then the Nampally Girls School located in the “Golden Threshold”, a former home of Smt.Sarojini Naidu. In 1932, the Intermediate Science Course was started and in 1935, Degree courses in Arts and Social Sciences were added. The College owes its present home to which it moved in 1949, to Nawab Ali Yaver Jung, the former Vice-Chancellor of the Osamania University. In 1941 B.Ed Degree and B.Sc. (Domestic Science) were introduced which has now been replaced by the BA and B.Sc. courses

Mission & Vision
Mission
The goals and objectives of the institution are to offer quality education to women and to empower them with information and awareness that enable them to cope with the challenges at various levels and in different spheres and to strive for excellence in the fields of teaching, research and employment.

Make young women strong and confident by imparting transformational education that is intellectually stimulating and academically inspiring and address the issues of gender in all their complexities in an effort to achieve optimum empowerment.

Facilitate each woman to gain personal strength based on values and life sustaining skills which enable them to meet the challenges of the changing world.

Vision
The College is committed to offer quality education to women students and after successful completion of 90 years is now moving towards 100 years mark. The Vision Statement of the College is given below:

✹ To offer quality education to women and contribute to the overall development of girl-students.
✹ To provide an environment conducive to realization of the students’ full potential.
✹ To empower girl-students with information and awareness that enables them to cope with the challenges at various levels and in different spheres.
✹ To train them for a varied skilled roles and professions.
✹ To enable students to grow into socially aware, independent, able and responsible individuals.
✹ To equip the students with skills, attitudes, and habits of learning that would help them in adapting themselves to the continual changes in their professional interactional area.
✹ To awaken and sensitize students to evolve the right skills, attitudes and learning strategies in order to suit the dynamic, professional and job demands.
✹ To strive for excellence in the fields of teaching, research and employment.

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